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Over the course of a decade, FastFrame has mushroomed into more than 300 international locations on the strength of their meticulous craftsmanship and lifetime guarantee. To showcase artwork, photos, or the first dollar made in the family counterfeiting machine, the professional framers sort through a treasure trove of materials, such as gold and silver settings, fabric-wrapped mats, and lamination. For light-sensitive items, they apply Preservation Plus framing, which uses acid-free framing accoutrements to protect portraits from fading under the withering gaze of UV rays or laser-eyed art critics.

To really get to know a city, you'll need your feet, your eyes, and your taste buds. That's what Culinary Connectors' tour guides think, anyway. They lead visitors and locals on tasting-filled explorations of Denver's gastronomic scene. Perennial favorites and hidden neighborhood gems fill ever-changing itineraries. At each restaurant, bakery, or craft brewery stop, participants enjoy small samples and maybe even a chat with a chef. Tours typically take between two and three hours, depending on the number of scheduled stops.

The Littleton Museum transports visitors to Colorado’s pioneer days with two outdoor “living history” farms—one dating back to the 1860s, one to the 1890s—and a working blacksmith shop. In the museum facility itself, peruse four galleries filled with more than 40,000 artifacts discovered in the state.

Live Out Loud Travel is committed to providing people of all ages a joyful, convenient, safe, fun and memorable travel experience. Our group trips encourage people to “live out loud” by embracing every moment and living it to the fullest through their encounters of different countries, people, cultures, and tradititions.

Chances are a Tyrannosaurus would bite if you tried to pet it. Thankfully, that's not the case at Morrison Natural History Museum, where a Tyrannosaurus skull is one of many safe fossils that visitors are encouraged to touch. The paleontology museum's 3,000 square feet of exhibition space is full of other dino bones discovered in Colorado, from the first stegosaurus fossils to the tracks of an infant dinosaur. A peek into the museum's Paleo Lab reveals scientists conducting research in real time, while trips to the dig pit let kids experience the rush of unearthing their own fossils.
Not everything at the Morrison is about fossils. Among the Ice Age exhibit's bones of saber-toothed cats, for instance, glass displays teem with live reptiles, amphibians, and a wooly mammoth stretching after a 7,000-year nap. Educational programs likewise blend dinosaur-focused activities and interactions with live creatures, such as birthday parties that include the chance to pet a live snake.

The Wildlife Experience, one of the country's more aptly named museums, offers a chance to encounter members of various animal kingdoms and habitats through an uncommon combination of interactive exhibits, natural history, fine art, and documentary films. Once inside, explore a variety of permanent and not-so-permanent exhibits. Globeology, is a three-dimensional jaunt that takes visitors through biomes from wild Colorado to the barren, WiFi-less tundra. Frogs!: A Chorus of Colors, meanwhile, gives visitors eyewitness access to fifteen types of colorful and vocal anurans, offering young guests insight into what frogs do when not playing a banjo or being chased by a pig.